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Post by Kim Falconer on Jun 20, 2006 1:10:39 GMT
Hello Everyone, Eros is about to change signs and make some very interesting contacts over the next 37 day! Go to the Eros Transit Guide to read more and find out what area of your chart will be activated by the god of love There will be an inclusion of the transit to Medusa in the end of July coming soon. Meanwhile, this period sees the square of asteroid 433 Eros to Circe on June 26th, the conjunction with Venus on June 30th, the conjunction with Prometheus on July 8th, the conjunction to Isis on July 10th, the opposition to Orpheus on July 13th, opposition to Medusa on July 26th and the near conjunction (5-10 degrees) to asteroid Lust all month! www.falconastrology.com/transits.htmComments, as always, are welcome. Kim
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Post by primamateria on Jun 20, 2006 1:28:20 GMT
wow! I forgot about this!
this means that Eros is conjunct my Ruler, Mercury, at 0 Gemini tomorrow...
this reminds me of the Lovers tarot trump... recently I read Robert A Johnson's book 'The Psychology of Romantic Love' (most apt here)..
What struck me as very true of Johnson's book is the idea that 'talk' between lovers is an activity which separates - and this is one of the esoteric lessons of the Lovers trump with all its qabalistic references.
Johnson puts to us that in order to love in a human manner we must 'put down the sword' (gemini/air/mercury) and 'pick up the harp'. In other words... tap into other air qualities such as music, scent and poetry to convey messages to our lover when reconcilliation and harmony are needed.
Joy, everyone pm
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Post by 3rdhousenorth on Jun 20, 2006 13:31:36 GMT
Interesting about putting down the sword and picking up the harp, primamateria. Except that I have Merc conjunct Venus/Pluto, so I think they're just always linked for me - talk and love together can be transformative. My creative writing is always and only stimulated by love and desire.
Eros will square my merc at 0Vir19 then later venus/pluto at 2+. Since it's a square, I guess it's not as strong a transit as conj or opposition. (But I just realized that Eros was sitting on my mars at 27taurus over the weekend. Aha!)
3rdhousenorth
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Post by Kim Falconer on Jun 25, 2006 9:47:04 GMT
I've just updated the 'Eros into Gemini' with a piece on Eros opposite asteroid Medusa at 29 Gem-Sag. Medusa, Eros & the Sacred Feminine Comments welcome as the aspect draws near! Kim
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Post by AquarianEssence on Jun 25, 2006 20:24:00 GMT
It's interesting the prelude to this opposition is happening now, as the nodes square Eros' placement at the end of his Gemini journey, but are square Medusa right now, forming an imbalance Eros will correct at opposition. It should be interesting, as he is now square his own nodes and OOB at 27*31', bring passion above average. Medusa is increasing in declination but won't go OOB. The online Ephemers is showing the true positions of the two being in opposition at 25 Sag-Gem on July 21 and will conjunct Pluto and the Galactic center at the same time. That's pretty powerful. Medusa is moving into the public spotlight tomarrow as she hits the Aries point of 0 Capricorn Rx. But if the apparant position shows the opposition at 29* it may "appear" to be something to weep about. I have Niobe there.
Eros' south node is conjunct my prebirth new Moon at 4 Virgo. While my natal Eros is involved in a mutable grand square involving my Sun, Medusa is involved in another one, cardinal in nature involving natal Chiron and the 1st of the 3 fates, Klotho. The Eros square involves initiating changes and the Medusa square involves changing or adapting to the initiation.
I've noticed when the Sun conjuncts or opposes natal Medusa, I get fired or have some other kind of ending. In fact while writing this I realized that even my being sent home on medical leave which was really being fired, was initiated by Sun opposing Medusa. I was sent home the first workday after a holiday weekend when the transit was exact. And, I have Medusa semisquare to Eros.
As I was pondering the Sun connection to my being fired today, I realized that my Atropos, endings, is ruled by the Sun. My natal Urania conjunct Sun=Klotho/Medusa, ie, the ability to see the big picture of who I am=pre-existant mortality that becomes immortal protection. I say that because even though she lost her head, she was immortalized by having her head preserved on Pallas' sheild. Her power still was alive and was used to protect others. When I was fired over the sexual harrassment issue, the two guys involved were immortal and I despensible since I hadn't been allowed to learn the set up skills they had. I was given immortality in two ways. 1: the bosses treated my profit sharing and matching 401k as fully vested even though I wasn't. 2: they received training on what the law requires and will never forget my time there. I hear they haven't found anyone as faithful or productive as my husband and I since. As for my current employment, if I never get a full medical release I will always be officially their employee, immortal. Oh; my hair, by they way, was always one of my main attractions.
I suppose the other meaning of Urania-Sun=Klotho-Medusa could be distorted view of self=I started out as a cunning mortal but I don't know how to be cunning. One of the guys had his Sun exactly here though. And another co-worker has Uranus in 10th there.
I wonder what the earliest stories of her said about her consent or nonconsent in her union with Poseidon. I have a feeling it was the same as with Persephone, consentual, but later changed with the Patriarchy rise to power. My dictionary says Medusa literally means the guardian. The cunning, guardian before incarnation consented to become the mortal victim for the purpose of resolving karma. I wonder why she is the only mortal of the trio and if there are asteroids yet named for the other two. I couldn't find a listing. I suppose it would be much better to work out karma in a mortal body rather than through our immortal body. That way it is resolved and not carried through eternity. Also, if Medusa is our guardian, she would have to take on a body to play a more physical role. Eruyale probably also means broad power along with wide roaming since el or ale means power and might. If so, the trio represents strength, broad power and cunning, or strong guardian with broad power.
I also noticed that the only way Perseus could protect himself was to look in a mirror (diamond shaped shield) which gave him a reversed image. The image originated behind him, symbolic of the past. So perhaps the best time to handle her power is when Rx, as she is now. Another way we may protect our self is through projection. My boss' recently divorced wife was a stripper and apparantly had some sexual contact with his brother in law before we were hired. His unresolved issues with them may have been projected onto my husband and me, reflecting the image through my diamond, as we got married while employed there.
This brings to mind how distorted memory can become. One of my brothers believes a certain painful thing happened to him when in fact, it happened to my sister as we both witnessed. I think because of his inability to help her he took that pain on himself in order to protect her, in his memory, which I can't blame him. I was very painful to witness and very unjust.
Could it be the the two older sisters are the immortal soul and spirit, Medusa representing the mortal body? Why is it that Medusa, the cunning one had to separate herself from her feminine in order to be faithful to Athena, and the first time she honored her feminine she was punished? That is what happened to me. I have no doubt, I chose this role. I must have known at some level that I was entering the male world when I took those jobs. My dad and brother both said they would have fired me if it were them. When my brother set himself up to have the chance, he did too. I can't wait for more of the pieces to my puzzle, and to deeper understanding of Medusa.
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Post by Kim Falconer on Jun 25, 2006 22:46:48 GMT
Oh bugger, here is a muddle! Typo leading to incorrect information! My apologies and thank you aquarianessence for spotting this so quickly! Eros and Medusa do oppose at 25 degrees Gem-Sag 26' on the 21-22 of July, depending on where you are on the date line. (Medusa Rx so it's a mutual opposition) That would be 26 degrees when checking the Sabian Symbols--which is where I started to go wrong in my notes! (26 degrees--26th of July)! I am fixing it now!!! Again, I apologize for the error! Kim
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Post by AquarianEssence on Jun 25, 2006 22:56:01 GMT
No problem! I thought you were using the apparant postition from other ephemeris site. I'm glad I accidently ommited the link to your article a while ago on the Zarathu forum. I just came back to get the address. See, even mistakes happen for a reason. Great article, by the way. There hasn't been much written on Medusa and I've been forming my own ideas about her for a few years now.
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Post by AquarianEssence on Jul 1, 2006 13:57:50 GMT
I've been learning a little about the Magi Astrologers ideas and some it is really making sense. What's really unusual is that they glorify the inconjunct. According to them the three planets of love in synestry are Chiron Venus and Jupiter and the positive aspects are conjunct, trine and inconjunct. The planets of sex/passion are Juno, Mars and Venus. Maybe Pluto too, I can't remember.
Anyway. I see that Jupiter, as he stations, is at 8Scorpio59 and has been forming a tight square to Chiron and Mars-Saturn but is completely finished with Chiron and Mars. He isn't finished with Saturn's boundaries, though. So this may have put a little chill into the love and passion areas of life but if Chiron is really connected to love then the worst is about over.
Jupiter, in the most passionate of signs, is inconjunct Eros tomarrow who is conjunct Venus, while he is standing still, preparing to do an about face at a critical degree. As he completes this he will then begin to move away from the square to Chiron. And Chiron has been trine Eros OOB and Venus bringing healing and love.
I don't have any problem accepting the fact that the inconjunct may be benificial. In fact, I tend to look at Virgo and Scorpio, both inconjunct to Aries, as the sexual signs and houses. Think about the physical act of sex and think about the energy of the quincunx. You tend to think of the sex act as a conjunction but because of the differences in the physiology of men and women, a true conjunct doesn't quite get it, they have to be inconjunct and apply a little quincunx energy which causes friction. Is it possible to reach orgasm without friction? When two people are attracted to each other, aren't there sparks flying? The only way to get a spark is with friction.
I don't know about all of you, but I have clearly felt a lot of eros but it feels bottled and doesn't know where to go. Of course, the nature of Gemini is so scattered, so many choices of direction. But which direction will be productive? And where are the open doors?
I discovered the Sabian Oracle when I followed the link to Lynda Hills site. It's really cool. I focused on the center of the picture and saw first an eye, then the eye became a fish with a small red eye. This is Scorpio. My question was, "Where is the point that I can find my most fulfilling income?"
The answer was SAGITTARIUS 4 A LITTLE CHILD LEARNING TO WALK WITH THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF PARENTS You may be moving into a new phase of learning that, despite all your previous experience, is surprisingly difficult. Patience and step-by-step progress is needed now. There may be those around you that don't take your difficulties seriously, but your struggles will pay off. Genuine progress. Instinctive determination. Feeling mother earth under your feet. Taking delight in the smallest progress. The Caution: Relying on skills that are not mastered or not taking the initiative. Putting yourself at risk rather than accepting help.
Eros just opposed this point a few days ago and it is where my Tantalus is. What is the best way to encourage a child to take that first step? Put something just out of their reach. That has been the story of my life. Every thing in my workplace was just out of reach. Eros is always there but Tantalus is there also, 4 degrees before. Eros moves maybe 4 minutes faster per day than Tantalus so he just moves on when something is out of reach, or, when I'm obligated because its my job, I reach and push anyway, causing harm to myself. What else can he do? Eventually, though Eros will travel the full circuit and come from behind Tantalus and grab it that way. That will happen August 17 or 18th at 20 Cancer, real close to where Mercury is going to make his station later this month. Perhaps then I'll be able to reach that door knob and take my first step through the door. Maybe by then they'll believe me. (Eros will also be opposing natal Kassandra in the 6th at the same time) Neptune square Uranus will finally be loosing their life-long affect by then too. Does any of this make any sense? I hope so.
This point, by the way, is in my home with my 4 year old son who is just in the first stages of learning to read and write. I hope to continue to home school him as his brothers have for the last 20 years. But there is no income there. The end of August Eros will also inconjunct Medusa who is always connected with my getting fired or removed in some other way. Eros will be in my 12th conjunct Uranus and Medusa will have already left Orpheus in my 5th, along with Pluto, and will be conjunct my asteroid Stalle. Hmmm
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Post by 3rdhousenorth on Jul 1, 2006 14:38:43 GMT
"I tend to look at Virgo and Scorpio, both inconjunct to Aries, as the sexual signs and houses."
Gads. I have 4 Virgo planets (plus Juno, Pallas, Ceres) and 2 Scorpio planets. Pluto/Venus conjoined in Virgo. Eros at 0Aries40 conj the AP in the 8th house; inconjunct Jupiter 0Sco44; inconjunct Mercury 0Vir20 and widely inconjunct Venus/Pluto (2Vir13/34) in the 1st. In another day and age I would definitely have been a courtesan! Also I have Lilith conjunct my Aries south node.
I've often been uncomfortable with my sexuality. Maybe a lot due to my upbringing. And Saturn in the 5th square my Sun hasn't helped. At middle age I may be coming to terms with it.
Anyway, thanks, AE, for this interesting point. Good luck with your choices. Sometimes I wonder if over-analyzing all these aspects can get in the way of intuiting or going with what our gut says? (My Merc/Venus/Pluto in Virgo overanalyzes a lot. Really, analyzing the aspects does nothing more than confirm what I know anyway.) You seem to have good intuition - what does that say to you?
3HN
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Post by AquarianEssence on Jul 1, 2006 15:07:43 GMT
I love to anylize with my Virgo energy, but I use it to comfirm if my intuition makes sense. My gut tells me there's a bigger plan here, someone bigger than me in control. My life seems to be guided by fate, set in stone before my birth, and I'm quite sure I was in agreement. I have hit so many dead ends in my life even when the skill and talent was there, that there has to be some reason for it. But I've always been taken care of and protected by the universe.
I have a feeling I knew before coming in this was going to be a tough one. I had a dream, I may have mentioned it somewhere, that I was seeing this beautiful frosted glass obelisk haning with the point down, saying go by, go fore, go by, go for. The obelisk is the constellation Cephus, whose point is facing the ascendant when I was born. I think I was having 2nd thoughts about entering, but I am here.
There are many women who are healing sexual memories. At one time the vestals were honered and revered as the path to God through the uniting in sex. Then, they were told no more and to be caught having sex meant horrible death, being burried alive I think. Women have been told they are property, there to serve men's needs, to remain silent, even that they are unclean when doing their cleansing. It will take some powerful healing to erase those memories. But we are doing that. When the student is ready, the teacher will come. I have found this very true.
I was listening to a tape series of lectures from a Solar Heart confrence and the man said, "What if your greatest fear were your most forgotten love? What is your greatest fear?..." I realized that my greatest fear is that I, as a woman, am the cause of the fall of mankind, through Eve. I immediately started crying, uncontrollably. Even now, writing this several years later, I have tears. Finally, after much pondering, studying, even learning enough Hebrew to dig for the answers, I discovered that my greatest fear may be my most forgotten love turned upside down and backwards. Man is the cause of the fall (if there really is a fall rather than simply a journey of learning) and woman is the redemption. God didn't tell Eve not to eat the fruit, and he never said at all not to touch it. Adam added to God's words and put even more limits on Eve. Notice Eve only has to do her labor through birth, man's redemption, but man was told to work the ground daily for his sustenance. And look who usually puts in more hours a day than the man?
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Post by AquarianEssence on Jul 1, 2006 16:40:54 GMT
Remembering this dream again, regarding the prefix fore (I also heard the words go for, forego) I decided to see what else I could learn about Prometheus. I found out one thing new. When he stole fire he hid it in a fennel stalk because it burned slowly. Now my use of herbs told me immediately this would latter be useful since fennel is good for the liver and for digestion. It is one of the seasonings used in sausage because it helps protect if it is tainted. Sage is another one of those herbs. Fennel is an antispasmodic, aromatic, carmiaative, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant and galactoagogue. Do you see the word galactic hidden there? It is used for the nerves so fits Prometheus being connected to Mercury and Gemini. It adds fire to the digestive system and is used for horseness (Mercury's voice opposite Sag the horse), coughs, Gemini again, jaundice (Jupiter) etc. Galactagogues, by the way, stimulate the secretion of milk in a nursing mother, bringing to mind the milky way, and of course, Cancer with the breasts and milk.
Eros will conjunct Prometheus a week from today and is about 6 degrees away. How might Eros be stimulated as he meets Prometheus? I'll leave that to the imagination. For me, the Uranus in Cancer opposition to himself transformed the breast, formerly only to produce sustance for my offspring to a tool of eros. Rather awkward since I was nursing my 6th child at the time. It's also interesting, according to an article I read, 26 Cancer, where my Uranus is located, is the degree of the nipples.
My Prometheus is exactly on the cusp of my 5th at 13 Sag so Eros is opposing and Prometheus is opposing himself this week. And like Prometheus, I do take quite a long time with my creations, wanting to do it right. I hope Epimetheus doesn't again use up all the good stuff.
I may not have mentioned before, I have Circe coming to the rescue at 4 Gemini so when Eros squared her, he was conjunct at the same time. Prometheus (me) didn't have her fennel with her when my husband ate too much Jamacian fire food at the Island fest, so it kind of took the eros out of the event. The peppermint I had did help though.
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Post by taurusbirthday on Jul 1, 2006 22:51:27 GMT
Hello all, Eros into Gemini is a hot thread, and I'm grateful I found Kim's site where I have learned a lot and it all is intricately related to my life. This past week I spoke with my brother in Los Angeles, who has an interesting chart... www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?nhor=5&nho2=5&btyp=24&mth=ast&hsy=0&zod=&add=18&add=19&add=20&add=22&add=12&add=13&add=14&add=15&add=23&node=-Yn&fix=1&sday=1&smon=7&syr=2006&rs=1&orbp=&cid=bjgfilegLOPq6-u1136915679&lang=e&gm=a1&ast=16%2Ch13%2C1181%2C8405%2C90377His NorthNode conjuncts natal Eros, 3rd House, Taurus and now that Jup's stationary-Direct in a few days, transiting Jup will soon be conjunct his natal Psyche in the 9th House, Scorpio, opposite NN/Eros conjunction in 3rd House, Taurus...and there's more. I'm so amazed at the importance of Eros, and was interested to read what JadeII said, quoting Kim, that Jup Rx interacting with 3rd House indicated a hesitancy, or an overwhelm.... this is a lot to take in and I'm digesting it and letting my intuition reveal the truth, daily, as I water my garden (so important in the summer in the Pacific Northwest!). Thanks. Taurusbirthday Thanks all! C1
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Post by AquarianEssence on Jul 2, 2006 11:37:35 GMT
As Jupiter rules Sag I thought it might be significant to mention that Eros will opposing all of the important points there, (14 Sag, the Great Attractor, 26 Sag, the Galactic Core) along with the implications of Chiron's connection to Sag. I've recently been delving into harmonic charts and discovered through a thread at the Zarathu forum that my 7th harmonic Chiron is at 14 Sag and I have several septiles (7th harmonic) to Chiron natally.
I look at oppositions as an opportunity for integreation and balance. The Gemini-Sag axis gives opportunity to integrate, not only information and other's views but our dual nature vs our divine, unified nature. The mysterious pull of 14 and 26 Sag is cruicial and key to this process. Notice there are currently 11 degrees between these two points, the 1st master number, that of Justice. Let it be so.
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Post by jk on Jul 3, 2006 10:39:35 GMT
How about this for a statement from somebody with venus conjunct Eros transiting natal Saturn in Gemini. " I've been thinking about the future, i may want to settle down and have children, but by the time i'm ready it will be too late for you" I think i've just been told that i'm too old to plan a future with!
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Post by gemstar on Jul 3, 2006 11:00:41 GMT
Well jk.....you thank your friend for the 'warning' and move on your way. If it takes a person that long to decide if they want you in their future, than you definitely do not have the 'time' to give them. While I am not so sure of the significance of that particular Eros transit, there is sure to be another more telling transit in that person's chart which is driving this idea perhaps.
Your time here is valuable....with or without children....and with or without that person.
Hang in there....
Hugs- GemStar
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